WELLESNET MESSAGE BOARD

This is now scheduled to air on October 28th at 10pm GMT; the Sky Arts channel has recently become available on Freeview (unfortunately in standard definition only) in addition to its other broadcast platforms. https://www.radiotimes.com/tv-programme/e/mr7p2s/urban-myths--s4-e4-orson-welles-in-norwi...

This 1982 interview has popped up on the Cinémathèque française 'Henri' site of films streaming free during Covid closures. Using the search function says it had a screening on TCM in 2002 and Locarno in 2005, but no other refernce I could find. https://www.cinematheque.fr/henri/film/125173-orson-we...

I like it, NoFake! At the time it felt more like The Trial! Shades of Journey Into Fear and Lady From Shanghai now you prompt me to think about it, but your idea of art succeeding over clumsy bureaucracy is a nice one that I'll remember!

A stage production framed around the Mercury broadcast of War of the Worlds , previously seen at London's New Diorama Theatre, is garnering good reviews at 2019's Edinburgh Festival Fringe. I had the chance to see it earlier this month and was very impressed. The show combines sequences of radio stu...

A friend sent me this link to a forthcoming Netflix special mockumentary, about an auteur who, from the evidence of the trailer, bears a more than coincidental visual and vocal resemblance to the Welles of the late 70s - early 80s. Apparently it launches July 16th. It'll be a while before I get to s...

Thanks Craig! What an excellent programme, hats off to you and the hosts. As good as British radio often is, there's a tendency to allocate too short a time to guest interviewees and cram too many in to a show. How refreshing to hear you guys cover everything in such interesting depth, and pay such ...

Hope it went well! Would like to hear it. Am I reading their listings correctly correct to think it's getting a rerun on Monday morning from 4am Eastern on their 'Blue Network'? Breakfast time for Brits!

Meant to post something on this subject for a while, never got round to working it up into an article. Going to throw it out as a talking point instead. Something that's seemed to be a small mystery is what RKO thought they were getting in The Magnificent Ambersons, and maybe a consensus that it was...

Ran across this page on a visit to the brilliant TV Tropes site, detailing some of the 'Tropes' aka tried-and-true formulae used and indeed established in the show. They resist the idea of 'cliche' and are firmly of the opinion that 'Tropes are good'! https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Radio/The...

I was able to see the exhibition in Edinburgh last week. Very grateful for the announcement on this site, without it I might not have become aware of the exhibition. The show is made up of approximately 120 artworks of various sizes and formats, divided into the subheadings 'Joker', 'Costumes', 'Rom...

Great work and Merry Christmas, Wich! Only today I caught this Magoo Carol pastiche on the Simpsons, merely a decade or two late... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yUmL0SOPUG8 I like this Animaniacs Carol a lot, it fits in all four ghosts, a nod to The Grinch and a Busby Berkeley number too in a tig...

This one's a little delayed but doesn't look like it ever crossed the radar here. A year or two back I picked up, in a thrift store, a copy of Christopher Fitz-Simon's biography on Hilton Edwards and Michael MacLiammoir. Of course, I went straight to the index and read through the sections on Welles...

Are you doing any audio interviews to go with it this year, Craig? Enjoyed the talk you gave on Yesterday USA last yule. My own favourite solo reading from Geoffrey Palmer hasn't made it to my usual annual rotation so far, and I have another unabridged CD set, from former Doctor Who Tom Baker, that ...

Unfortunately the production at The White Bear appears to have been called off. The booking website, which had listed the performance dates with an instruction to contact the theatre, now lists all dates as cancelled. I couldn't ascertain with a quick web search whether any performances actually too...

While Googling for a link to the London production the other day I came across a link to a casting call for the show. The live post had expired, but it's still held in Google's cache: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:Yp5B5-NgJWYJ:www.mandy.com/procasting/364942/orson_welles_brigh...